NEWS 409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Erwin Chemerinsky
5 Feb 2019
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This month, uc berkeleyy law school dean erwin chemerinsky delivered two lectures at cornell on free speech on campus. A gray area is the scope of obligation of government, including public universities, to pay the added safety costs associated with speakers with highly controversial views. He recited the fact that when conservative columnist ben shapiro spoke at his school, the university spent 600,000 dollars on security. It was prepared to spend even more for the free speech week that milo yiannapoulos was planning. He identified an open question in the law that is a problem. On the other hand, universities have limited budgets. The 1992 scotus case of forsyth county v. nationalist movement seems to imply they must. This case only decided the vesting discretion in a government official to decide how much to charge for the costs associated with their march was unconstitutional.
